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  'La Donna E Mobile'  Hiroyuki Ito/Hulton Archive / Getty Images By   Aaron Green Updated on 01/05/19 The aria for lyric tenors known as "La donna e mobile" is the centerpiece of the opera "Rigoletto,"  Giuseppe Verdi 's twisted tale of lust, desire, love, and deceit. Composed between 1850 and 1851,  Rigoletto  was adored by audiences when it first premiered at La Fenice in Venice on March 11, 1851, and even now, over 150 years later, it is one of the world's most performed operas. According to Operabase, which gathers statistical information from opera houses around the world, Verdi's " Rigoletto " was the 8th-most performed  opera  in the world during the 2014/15 season. The Context of "La Donna e Mobile" The Duke of Mantua sings this unforgettable aria in the third act of Verdi's  Rigoletto  as he flirts with Maddalena, the sister of the assassin Sparafucile. Rigoletto, the Duke's right-hand man, and his daughter, ...

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Ingolf Wunder - Chopin Nocturne Op.9 No.2 A beautifully sleepy rendition of Chopin's Nocturne in Eb Major. Play Video By Maddy Shaw Roberts   Playing the piano benefits your brain in a multitude of ways, according to a new study… A new study has found that playing the piano improves the brain’s ability to process sights and sounds, and can boost your mood. Researchers at the University of Bath placed 31 adults in a randomised control study, and separated them into three groups: music training, music listening, and a control group. Beginner pianists with no prior musical training undertook weekly, one-hour piano lessons over a period of 11 weeks. The second group listened to music for an hour, while the third used the time to read and study quietly. After just a few weeks, the beginner pianists reported significant improvements in recognising audio-visual changes in the environment and reported less depression, stress and anxiety. One of the authors, Dr Kari...

The Clueless Heroes in Classical Operas by Maureen Buja, Interlude Throughout most of the opera, there are certain tropes that repeat and repeat: the heroine will die of some wasting disease ( La Bohéme, La Traviata , etc.), the hero will save the day ( Die Zauberflöte ), and so on. There are some operas, however, where it’s the idiot or the simpleton who saves the day. Richard Strauss:  Guntram In Richard Strauss’ unsuccessful opera  Guntram , our title character is a minstrel. He first dissuades duchess Freihild from drowning herself. He then goes to her husband, Duke Robert, a grasping tyrant, and sings a song to peace and generous rulers, which doesn’t go over very well, and then urges rebellion against the duke. The duke attacks our minstrel, who turns out to be a knight-minstrel and slays the duke. While imprisoned, Guntram realizes that, although he spoke of liberation, he was really acting out of love for Freihild. He decides that in atonement, he will spend ...

by   Ursula Rehn Wolfman , Interlude Later mythologized as a  true  Italian, Giuseppe Verdi was born on October 10, 1813 in Busseto as a French subject, which seems to have disturbed him enough to lead him to represent that he had in fact been born in 1814, in which year the Dukedom of Parma, to which Busseto belonged, became an independent Italian state. Throughout most of the 19th century, Italy was not a political entity, but rather a  cultural  idea, where everyone, whether in Milano, Venice, Genoa, in the Piedmont and in the many other cities and states, could live as a member of an ancient, noble and respectable cultural community, irrespective of borders, customs and tariffs. A political union had been impossible, since the major European powers — Germany, Spain, France and Austria, as well as the Papal States — controlled the various Italian regions. The 19th century saw a re-awakening, the  ‘risorgimento’  as it would later be called...

by Georg Predota, Interlude Giuseppe Verdi, 1840 We do know that Giuseppe Verdi was born in the small village of Roncole, near Busseto in the Duchy of Parma. What is not clear, however, is the exact date of his birth. The baptismal register of 11 October records him as ‘born yesterday,’ but as days were sometimes counted as beginning at sunset, that could mean either 9 or 10 October. His parents belonged to families of small landowners and traders, and his father Carlo was described as an innkeeper and his mother Luigia Uttini as a spinner. The family always celebrated the boy’s birthday on 9 October, and Verdi strongly believed that he was actually born on that day. Verdi as organist in Busseto We are not going to argue with Verdi about his birthday, but instead recognize him as one of the most precocious musical talents of all time. He started keyboard lessons at the age of three, and when his teacher passed away, the nine-year old Giuseppe took over his teacher’s job and du...